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rafting-channel Lumbering, Obs.

• n. such a side channel used as a route for rafts and cribs of timber.

  See also: snye (def. 1b)  

  • 1827  (1829)  Passing the east end of Merrick's Mill-dam . . . is a snie, which has been converted into a rafting channel.